Word: trade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ourselves" into anything. The alternatives are not isolation and war. For those with eyes to see, the evidence that America cannot be isolated is overwhelmingly convincing. Were it possible to discard the psychological element, the inevitable unncutrality of thinking, it would not be politically possible to crect the foreign trade controls, the internal industrial and agricultural management, and the price fixing, that would be necessary to prevent our economic system from involving us in the conflict. It is not "war mongering," as Hitler and American isolationists insist, for the President to point out this fact. It is enlightened common sense...
...Table 2, The United States' Policy toward International Trade, Will be Harry Hawkins, chief of the Trade Agreements division of the Department of State; Leo Pavlovsky, director of the Brooking Institute; Edward P. Warner, political and economic adviser to the department of Agriculture; and B. B. Wallace and A. M. Fox, Tariff Commissioners...
Well aware was Franklin Roosevelt that this proposal conflicts with New Deal trade philosophy. By a similar plan, Adolf Hitler has so affronted the Administration that last month Secretary Morgenthau clapped an extra 25% duty on German exports proved to have been subsidized. Secretary of Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace is on record as opposing cotton export subsidies (although Federal Surplus Commodities Corp. has since July 1938 dumped 67,000,000 bushels of wheat abroad). But last week Cordell Hull and Henry Wallace no less than Franklin Roosevelt felt that King Cotton, overloaded by a bumper 1937 crop...
Without catering to the jitterbug trade, The Castles modernizes somewhat the mood of daring pre-War dances which would seem shockingly sedate to modern audiences. It does so, however, without demolishing their charm and elegance. The songs that tinkle across the sound track-In My Merry Oldsmobile, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Waiting for the Robert E. Lee, Oh, You Beautiful Doll and a dozen others-are calculated to evoke an era when alligators lived only in swamps, or zoos. And they succeed so completely that when Vernon Castle's plane crashes at Fort Worth, even...
...titles of the five tables are: I. "The United States and Latin American Relations;" II. "The United States' Policy Toward International Trade;" III. "Social Security and Relief;" IV. "Government and Transportation Problems;" and V. "Pressure Groups in a Democracy...